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To the honoured science of medicine, homoeopathy adds an especial human artistry - the perception of who the person to be healed really is, and the recognition of his unique individuality in the roster of the proven instruments of healing. This similarity between patients and remedy follows the venerable law of correspondences, even the Doctrine of Signatures. The nature of substances must be apprehended intuitively by the use. not only of our six senses but of other more delicate and deep accords with the human being. There is a special genius which can know human nature, which can enter into the unspoken, which can perceive the process behind the pathology or the functional disharmony that eventuates in organic illness. Medical students use acrostics, often ribald, to fix dull facts in their memory. The homoeopath knows the remedy like the friends of his spirit.

What does Fluoric Acid mean to you? An essential for proper teeth? A question of water supply? A substance which gives an El Greco-ish cast to your skin? A strange light on the avenue? Not so to the homoeopath. To him it is Casanova. A charming, fickle butterfly, the man about town who ogles women in the street, the 'one-night stand' young man with a yen for variety and a great love of strangers. It is a male remedy, or one for mannish women; debauched, always trying to prove his manhood through lecherousness and variety. Sudden aversion to his wife and children, which he fights against. Elated, buoyant, happy, as only Phosphorus or Tuberculinum can be, yet more vital than them. All his geese are swans. Compelled to move about energetically, to walk fast, fearless of misfortune, flickering like a fluorescent light. Hasty, craving cold, and actually ill from warmth and warm drinks. Hungry to the point of gluttony, relieved by discharges which are thin, foul and acrid. Compulsion for long walks to let off steam. His hair is bristly, tousled, dry, his nails have longitudinal furrows, and both grow abnormally fast. Telangiectases, naevi. exostoses. Nails too thick, or thin and irregular; brilliant redness of the palms of the hands.

What does the substance magnesium mean to you? A ribbon to make a flash of light? A toothpaste? Or cathartic? Actually it is light, fragile, brilliant, brittle, swift to be consumed, a flash in the pan. It cannot resist,

it flames and peters out with a faintly sour, metallic odour. If Sulphur is the great unwashed. Magnesia Carb. is the great unloved, the illegitimate child, the droopy yet tense orphanage kid, anxious, silent, insecure, with twitching face and fingers and reproachful eyes. With sunken neck and temples, always nibbling for comfort, craving meat, a veritable Oliver Twist. Marasmus, inanition, unwanted. Magnesium in the human body occurs pre-eminently in the sperm: in the vegetable kingdom, in seeds. The child needing magnesium lacks creativity. It has great trouble with wisdom teeth: it is for people who come hard by what wisdom they have. Puny, sickly, sour babies who refuse milk, pitifully sensitive to noise and touch. Children of a tubercular background who are going into a decline. Spare, thin, dark, irritable, exhausted, unattractive children whom nobody loves. People who need soothing. Worn-out women who cannot even keep house properly; restless, chilly, listless shadow-wives of exigent males. Magnesia Carb. is to exhausted nerves what China is to loss of blood or fluid, a replenisher, a sustainer. Deficient vitality, too tired when sitting, relieved by walking and motion, sudden crumpling up without loss of consciousness. It is the chronic of Chamomilla. The thymus gland and the cerebrospinal fluid are also rich in magnesium. Magnesium deficiency causes lack of mother-love in animals. Magnesium is to chlorophyll as iron is to haemoglobin. A magnesium deficiency in the diet is said to favour cancer.

Another defective vitality remedy is Zincum, sometimes called the mineral Opium. It appears in molluscs. It is preternaturally calm, especially in regard to death, which it loves. Speaks of death with pleasure, though not suicidal, lies with eyes closed as if in a coma, and when questioned, hesitates, repeats the question to gain time and finally slowly gives a rational answer. Brain fag, a 'punch drunk' Nux Vomica. Too weak to bring out an exanthematous rash. Effusion into the ventricles with rolling eyeballs and half-open eyes. Starting at noise, jerking in sleep, constant fidgeting of the feet, feeling as if she had committed a crime, complaints from fright. Complete inability to sleep. Hangs the head down over the bed. Flushed with the least sip of wine. Energetic during menses. Zincum is a sovereign remedy in post-measles encephalitis.

Almost anyone with blonde daughters will recognize the whimsical, changeable, weepy, flirtatious Pulsatilla, with their late menses and corpus luteum deficiency, their religious streak in puberty, their jealousy and love of sympathy, their suggestibility, selfishness, self-pity and sanctimoniousness. Sullen, slow, sedentary, self-conscious, always wanting to make a good impression and to blame things on somebody

else. Every big family of girls has one. The anemone Pulsatilla has been called the Tears of Venus. It wilts easily and blows in any wind. Homosexual women, dreading men and averse to marriage; easily discouraged and touchy; unexpectedly stubborn; avaricious. Fears ghosts and the dark. Even the ovum is superficially implanted and does not take hold. Aborts easily and early (fifth week).

Many a blonde charmer, however, is of the type of Cuprum, the metal of Venus; the hysterical blonde who has never been crossed; a spoiled brat who needs a spanking, and craves one. 'Off the handle'; loquacious, sullen, headstrong, malicious, morose, with fixed ideas, terror of death, complaints from fright. Tricky and spoiled. Disorderly, changeable, dissatisfied. Maniacal rage; cramps of spirit as well as body. Wild-eyed; mad fits. They stage scenes; bellow like a calf: lie like someone dead, blue and alarming and rigid. Ecstasy with quivering. Greed, malice, desire to injure, to run away and scream, to escape. Shrinks from people. Mimicry. Emotional nausea more than any remedy; nervous prostration in the young. Brain metastases: delirium with distorted face ending in sweat. Chorea, convulsions, epilepsy worse before menses; worse at noon. Uraemia.

Who knows the dried-up old maid of homoeopathy? Spare, dry. dark, timorous, staggery. hopelessly depressed. Confused, cannot believe that they have said what they say. Do not think they are themselves. Craving dried food, tea grounds, chalk. Fears insanity. Peevish and puckery. Illusions of being larger, numb, smooth, etc. Suicidal at the sight of a knife or blood. Uses up rolls of toilet paper because of her adhesive, soft stool, for which she must strain. Cannot speak for hoarseness. All the sap dried out of her. Did you recognize Alumina?

Every now and then a real neurotic will challenge you. Perhaps they came because they cannot meet any engagement, however pleasant, without diarrhoea. She will tell you that her complaints are worse from mental exertion. There is a lack of balance between the mental and the physical; she is withered by intellect. She is full of whims and super- stitions. for example, never stepping on a crack in a sidewalk. She hurries, almost running in the street because she thinks someone is following her; houses seem to crush her in the street. Time goes too slowly. She has strange impulses and notions, and fears that she will fail at everything. She is the prize rationalizer. Her memory is one of her chief complaints. Predicts the time of death. Dreams of snakes and sex. Fears crowds. She is an exhibitionist and will buck up if someone is keeping an eye on her. She is off-balance and uncoordinated. She makes errors in perception, especially of size. Enlarged sensation. She has a

fear of high places and is inclined to jump. Fear of fainting and disease. Indisposed to talk, which makes her nervous. She goes on sweet binges which aggravate, and escapes to alcohol. She is a prize belcher and enjoys it. She wants the room icy and all her food cold, and is aggravated from warmth in any form. Especially worse in the sun. She is a moon child. This is the actor's remedy, full of hoarseness, painful throat, faltering speech from panic, failure and nerves - 'Alibi Ike": Argentum Nitricum.

'If I rest I'll go mad' is the keynote to lodum. Never can stay in lied, even with I05°F fever. Must have cold air, always much too hot. Compulsions to violence without cause. Wants to hurt her child. Dark, thin, tawny-skinned, shrivelled, withering; shuns company: melancholy, suspicious, suicidal. Always eating and never full, yet emaciates. The glands enlarge at the expense of the rest of the body. She burns the candle at both ends and is cross and anxious.

Among the bees the queen is paramount, the drones and workers serve her. Apis is a jealous widow, deprived though not depraved, amorous, vain and hard to please. She is bossy and wants to run the world, a breaker of rules; absent-minded, apathetic, awkward, drops things and breaks things (whereas Natrum Mur. stumbles). There is a sting in her gossip: direct malice, not devious. She is impatient, dictatorial, whiney. fidgety; averse to constriction, upset by trifies. irked by small talk, procrastinating, worse after sleep and violently aggravated by anything hot.

If Rhus Tox. is the human barometer, Mercurius is the human thermometer, suited by neither heat nor cold, alternately hot and chilly. Many criminals need Mercurius. It may be a brutal, ugly, cruel type - the murderer's remedy. Suicide by shooting. Like the substance mercury it is elusive. Like Mercury, the messenger of the gods, it is glib, tricky, mischievous, mistrustful. Weary of life. Hasty and ineffective. Quicksilver is called the chameleon mineral and is volatile. The typical Mercury patient is chronically ill. disgusted and morose. He may be stupid and slow to answer, or over-bright without character. I le is averse to company, timid, with feeble will and poor memory, worse from sunset to sunrise. He is bald and slimy, uncoordinated, tremulous, irregular in his movements. He is embarrassed, homesick, absent-minded, even imbecile. He has impulses he fears to follow. Mercurius acts on the lymphatic system as Aconite acts on the circulatory. In olden times mercurialization was almost universal, witness the slogan - 'Salivation is salvation". Mankind has been thoroughly poisoned by this substance.

Moth protection? Indeed, the Arbor vitae was the secret of Egyptian embalming, dissolving tissue and flushing out Ihe cavities. Thuja

occidentalis is oval in its shape, in its buds, and those who need the

remedy are elliptical, all curves. Il is the great remedy for the Japanese people; for drinkers of lea, for those prone to excess. Il is the former of tumours, lipomas, cysts, papillomas; warts, dark as the cypress and canalized. It has slrange odours of fish-brine, of garlic, of honey. The Thuja patient has too much hair. Women with moustaches and coarse, black hair on the limbs. It is waxy and greasy-looking and pallid like the buds of the cedar. Extremely sensitive to people, to music, which makes il weep. Worse in the moonlight: sensation of being separated from oneself, of floating: dreams of falling. Ihe dead and levitation. Salacious; hasty, yet often slow in speech, mistakes in reading and writing. Fixed ideas: thinks she is pregnant, that the legs are made of wood or elongated. Heavy trunk, short neck and thin limbs. Small bones, short children with irregular teeth which decay early. Pituitary dysfunction; mentally handicapped children, ugly-looking people. Chronic ill-effect of animal poisons such as snake bites or serums, and especially of vaccinations which do not lake. Feels he is under the dominion of a superior power, or as if a stranger were al his side. Exhausted and soft. Dissolves tumours. Excess of mucous discharges. The most vesicular remedy.

The most precious of metals - gold, or Aurum Metallicum - represents the sun, the ego. the blood. Paracelsus and Avicenna spoke of it. It is usually thought of as the masculine ego. the feminine or false ego being Platina. In the modern world the Aurum patient is a solid businessman, a good father. He tends to be robust, earthy, ruddy and bald. His distresses in the mental sphere have to do with perversions of Ihe affections. He is turbulent, uncommunicative, angry, worse from contradiction. He broods, feels guilty and inferior. He is concerned about his salvation. He is taciturn, melancholy, and even suicidal by jumping. Having had a jolly night with the boys the evening after the financial crash, he is the one who jumps off the roof or out of his office window. He is especially oriented toward money (Ihe gold standard again), lie has an insanity of the will, and although he is very able, nolhing succeeds, or so he thinks. He is full of self-criticism, angry al trifles, restless and always in a hurry. In your office he will pace the floor and say nothing, whereas Natrum Mur. will just say nothing. He craves the wide open spaces. Music is a great relief to him. He is one of the few remedies that goes into despair from severe pain. Like Belladonna, he

will hit his head against the wall. He is always too warm, craves air as violently as Lachesis. He fears people. He is warm-blooded, better in cold weather and from cold bathing; often olive-skinned and dark- haired. He has a relationship with the dead, like Thuja and Zincum. dreams of them, of falling and robbers. He is markedly aggravated at night, sunset to sunrise, and may sob in his sleep. It is the most deeply syphilitic and suicidal remedy. He craves alcohol. He tends to complaints of the heart and bones. Although superficially flexible, he is basically extremely stubborn.

The nickname for Arsenicum is the 'gold-headed cane' patient. Though so weak that he is almost dying, he will remember to want his flowered dressing gown, and will really suffer if the pictures are crooked on the wall. The keynote of the Arsenicum patient is irritable weakness, restlessness without relief from motion, drives him from bed to bed; prostration out of all proportion. Burning relieved by heat, including stuffy rooms, hot drinks and foods. Aggravation after midnight, especially at 1 or 2 a.m. Chilly, right-sided, wants someone constantly to hold his hand. He is vain, mean, avaricious, malicious. In fact, to the homoeopath the Nitric Acid and Arsenicum patients are the ones most to be dreaded - except for the prize pest (who does not mean to be) Psorinum. Arsenicum actually means every nasty thing it says or does. They are full of fears: of being alone, of death: are fastidious and exacting. Even their secretions are scanty, like their kindness: acrid, thin and cadaveric in odour. The great remedy for shortness of breath and for improving the skin and hair. The Stygian island arsenic eaters can do great feats of mountain climbing. The Arsenicum patient is cowardly, vicious; he curses like Anacardium. He cannot live - from anxiety rather than from pain. A great remedy for racehorses to improve their wind and coats.

Then there are the fat, flabby, red-faced, strawberry-blond Capsicum children, who are quietly homesick and want to be let alone and sleep. Refractory, stubborn, slow in all their reactions, alternate pale and red faces, lazy beyond belief, they dread the open air. Children of overindulgent parents (the opposite of Magnesia Carb.). They are suspicious and take offence easily; obstinate, contrary, clumsy and awkward. They do not have desires - they have impulses: persistent suicidal thoughts, although they do not wish to do it; now jovial, now angry at trifles. Cannot learn at school for emotional reasons. Lack of reaction, craves stimulants, in a class with Nux Vomica for delirium tremens. It is a sort of degenerated Belladonna. The headaches of Capsicum, however, are accompanied by a cold, red face, by rigors and

shivering on drinking. Pain in distant parts on coughing, like Causticum. Gloomy Gus - Natrum Carb. - is one of the sad. sensitive Natrums. 'Brain fag', the bookkeeper who can no longer add correctly. This Sodium is as lean, dyspeptic, excitable and stooped as a Sulphur, but he is greatly aggravated by mental exertion, which gives him a headache. He is not only sad but oversensitive; he starts violently at noise, at music. His taste is overdeveloped, he is irritable after eating. His nose is red, like many dyspeptics, and the tip of his nose is puffy and pimply - the so- called red cabbage nose. His mind is acid as well as his stomach. He worries over trifles and has total debility in the summer heat. Withered infants with weak digestions and diarrhoea from milk. Headaches from the sun and light.

Nitric Acid is one of the most disagreeable patients. As infants they desire pica, indigestible things, salt or earth, and are relieved, as in later life, by riding in an automobile - in other words, by jar. Like Arsenicum they are malicious and exigent. They are also vindictive and ungrateful. They have complaints after, for instance, stool or urinating, or vomiting. It is the great remedy for diarrhoea after the use of the mycins. The Nitric Acid patient waxes his moustache, which does not conceal the deep lines of suffering from nose to mouth. He has cracked lip corners, mapped tongue, bleeding, jagged warts, piles, and rectal prolapse. He is miserable at both ends. It is most suitable for people past middle age, thin, dark-haired, diarrhoeic people, well enough but full of woe. Very much alive, but hypochondriac. Anxious over his illness, thinks he will die soon; cantankerous, taciturn, joyless, sad in the evening, lives in the past, headstrong, peevish, obstinate; inveterate ill- will. Do not bother to apologize to Nitric Acid - he will be unmoved by it. His mood is worse on alternate days. They have pain in the bones where they come near the skin, such as the shin. One of our greatest homoeopaths claims that since nitrogen is a main element in organic life. Nitric Acid should be one of our most powerful and most frequently needed remedies.

Phosphorus - think of phosphorescence, a gleam, a glitter, a fitful light, but no warmth. The sanguine temperament, sensitive, sudden, euphoric, creative; new interests; wonderful beginners and poor finishers. Young people, cultists. one of the few remedies for ecstasy (compare Fluoric Acid). Phosphorus will counteract the effects of anaesthesia, especially those of chloroform. It is also the remedy of